Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms’ sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female...

Rund 28% der Haushalte in Luxemburg sind Mieter einer Immobilie, um dort zu wohnen und/oder zu arbeiten. Im geschäftlichen Bereich werden Räumlichkeiten und Grundstücke für gewerbliche, handwerkliche, industrielle Zwecke oder auch zur Ausübung eines selbständigen Berufs gemietet. In allen...

This study provides cost data for different heating appliances, covering: gas boilers, oil boilers, biomass boilers (pellet), air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, air-air heat pumps (air conditioners), direct acting electric heaters (panel heaters), storage heaters (high heat...

Vom Immobilienpreisboom in Deutschland profitieren nicht nur Kapitalanleger und große Wohnungsunternehmen, sondern auch viele Eigenheimbesitzer. Quer über alle Regionen sind zwischen 2013 und 2018 die Preise für Einfamilienhäuser deutlich gestiegen: in der Spitze um bis zu 93 Prozent....

"José swung the gate open, hopped back into the bed of the truck, and tapped the window to the cab gently with the butt of his rifle. Iván cut the headlights and put the truck in gear. We inched forward along the bumpy road that carved through the broad southern Venezuelan plains, the dust...

Using case studies drawn from the authors' own and others' research, this working paper describes and compares some of the ways land conflicts reflected, intensified or reshaped struggles over authority within and between families, local communities, institutions and states in post-colonial...

Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet...

Property rights -- Jews in the market for land -- Lords of the land?: Jews as rentiers and cultivators -- Dowries, wills and gifts: property and the tranifer of wealth -- The link between credit and land -- The economic case for property: asset choices, risk and return -- Credit and property in...

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may serve as an explanatory...